Hackensack police are investigating a reported luring attempt Monday morning a few blocks from the city’s middle school, authorities said.

A white or Hispanic male with a goatee approached a student walking to school around Union and Lawrence streets at 7:36 a.m. and asked for help to look for a lost dog, Hackensack Police Capt. Thomas Salcedo said. The child declined.

The man, reported to be between 20- and 30-years-old, was last seen driving a black two-door Honda north on Union Street, Salcedo said. The incident was reported to police at 8:53 a.m.

This is the sixth report of an attempted luring in Bergen County in the past two weeks.

In Leonia, police are looking into three reported luring attempts last week. On March 14, a 13-year-old girl told police that a man driving a gold Honda sedan on Linden Terrace near Fort Lee Road asked her to show him where the post office is, police said. The girl told police that she saw a 10- to 12-year-old girl wearing a pink coat and a pink-and-brown hat seated in the back seat of the man's car, appearing to be upset.

On March 12, a white man in his 50s with white hair and facial hair asked for directions and then yelled sexual remarks at girls in two separate instances. The man was described as a white male in his 50s with all white facial hair driving a light blue sport utility vehicle in both cases, police said.

Norwood police are observing traffic near the Norwood Public School during pickup, drop-off and recess times after a white male of about 40-years-old beckoned to two students on Tuesday. There haven’t been any additional reports or sightings of the Jeep Wrangler the man was reportedly driving, police said.

In Ridgefield Park, police are searching for two men in their early 20s who were driving a metallic-blue sport-utility vehicle on March 10 and made a comment to a child riding a bicycle about coming over to the vehicle. It is possible that this was the act of two young people who were acting “immaturely,” police said in a press release, though they are continuing to investigate the incident.

Lynn Trager, the superintendent of Tenafly's public schools, sent an email to parents on Friday warning that local police had informed the district of "suspicious luring incidents that have occurred in surrounding neighborhoods." She said police don't believe the incidents are related but added that they are "concerning" and asked students and teachers to report suspicious activity to police or a school administrator.